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THE 



Republic of America 

Its Civil Polity as Outlined by the Prophets. 

Its Politico-Religious Mission in the 

World's Civilization, and Its 

Need of the Soldier. 



/ BY 

REV. L. B. HARTMAN, A.M., D.D., 

Chaplain 7th Regiment, N. G., N. J., 

Author of " Divine Penology," " Little Willie," etc. 
(SECOND EDITION) 



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TO THE 

HEAVEN-FAVORED CITIZENS OF AMERICA AND TO THE 
HONORED SOLDIERY OF OUR 

REPUBLIC 

THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS MOST LOYALLY AND AFFECTION- 
ATELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 



" Whenever a new or startling fact is brought to light, people at first 
say — it is not true; then— it is contrary to religion; and lastly— every- 
body knew it before."— Prof. Agassiz. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. p^oE 

Soldiers — An Indispensable Factor of Aggi-essive 
Civilization . . 9 

CHAPTER n. 
Our Republic — The Embodiment of Christian 
Principles Conducive to National Greatness 
and Civic Superiority 28 

CHAPTER m. 
Our Republic as Outlined by the Prophets 56 

CHAPTER rv^. 
Our Republic — The Harbinger of the Highest 
Civilization, and our Institutions the Pohtical 
Evangel of the World 76 

CHAPTER V. 
True Patriotism — The Conservator of our National 
Integrity and Glory 99 

CHAPTER VL 
Conclusion 110 



PREFACE. 

It is by the urgent request of many, 
and yet with great diffidence, that 
the author of this treatise ventures to 
present it to the public. 

Perhaps no one more fully realizes the 
responsibility asumed by any author who 
attempts to unfold truths by the inter- 
pretation of similitudes and prophetic 
symbolisms. 

But such is the interest which he has 
always felt in the glory of our Republic, 
and in the soldiery of America, through 
whose chivalry it was born, by whose 
valor it has been preserved, and through 
whose heroism it has been expanded, 
that he desires to lay before them facts, 
both new and old, which have not been 
so generally apprehended by the masses 
of our citizens. 



Preface. 

The relation of our Kepublic to Chris- 
tianity and to other nations; its royal 
mission in the civilization of the world ; 
and some of the new problems which 
confront our Congress and our states- 
men, are reviewed in the light of divine 
prophecy and humbly discussed, with 
what ability and satisfaction the careful 
reader will decide. 

The author does not claim originality 
in all these pages contain, having drawn 
largely on his old scrap book, and he 
calls the reader's special attention to the 
quotation marks — the names of writers 
he would gladly give if he were able to 
do so. 

If the reader should find sonivj things 
new and strange, it is hoped that he will 
"not forget to entertain strangers," etc., 
at least until with a kindly spirit he has 
fully examined the premises. 

L. B. Haktman. 

Trenton, N. J. 

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CHAPTER I. 

SOLDIEKS— AN INDISPENSABLE FACTOR OF 
AGGRESSIVE CIVILIZATION. 

That God, the Creator and Ruler of 
the universe, from the very beginning 
has had a purpose and plan concerning 
the human race, perhaps no one will 
deny. 

As intelligent design is apparent in all 
His ways and works— "Day unto day 
uttering speech and night unto night 
showing forth knowledge"— it is but 

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natural to suppose, even apart from 
Divine revelation, that man, the master- 
stroke of his creative energy, is also 
under the surveillance of His divine and 
universal providence. 

The voice of history bears unequivocal 
testimony to this fact — a fact equally 
valuable to the private citizen and the 
public functionary; to the kingdom of 
heaven and the kingdoms of this world. 

While God deals with men as individ- 
uals, He deals with nations as nations in 
a corporate sense, blessing them with 
His favor, or overthrowing them by His 
judgments at His pleasure. 

We need not therefore be surprised at 
the language of the great Apostle: 
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"Let every soul be subject unto the 
higher powers. For th ere is no power 
but of God ; the powers that be are or- 
dained of God. Whosoever therefore re- 
sisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance 
of God; and they that resist shall receive 
to themselves judgment. For rulers are 
not a terror to good works, but to the 
evil. Wilt thou not then be afraid of the 
power? Do that which is good and thou 
shalt receive praise of the same. For 
he is the minister of God to thee for good. 
But if thou do that which is evil, be 
afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in 
vain; for he is the minister of God, a 
revenger to execute wrath upon him that 
doeth evil," etc. (Rom. 13. 1-7.) 
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No less explicit are the words of St. 
Peter: "Submit yourselves! whether it 
be to the king as supreme; or unto 
governors as unto them that are sent by 
God for the punishment of evil doers, 
and for the praise of them that do well." 
(I Peter ii. 13, 14.) 

The maintenance of civil government 
is essential to our moral constitution as 
a people; just as essential as is the exis- 
tence of the church to our spiritual well- 
being. Both have their origin in God, 
and our whole duty demands proper at- 
tention to each, thus rendering "to 
Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 
and to God the things which are 
God's." 

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The Republic of America. 

In order to trace the steps of Provi- 
dence more minutely, let us consider: 

(1) That God in carrying forth His 
great purposes among men has ordained 
civil governments. It is admitted that 
"order is God's first law." All that is 
beneath Hmi He has organized into sub- 
ordinate systems — reciprocal confedera- 
cies and co-ordinate governments, to 
secure His purposes. In the material 
universe we find "lunar systems" and 
"solar systems" and "astral systems," 
all relatively subordinate, wherein one 
world governs another, and all in har- 
mony carry out the imperial mandates 
of their common Creator and Lawgiver. 

In Heaven above, we read, there are 
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different ranks of "angels" and various 
orders of "principalities and powers," 
ordained to accomplish the plans and 
fulfill the purposes of the Almighty. 

Even in this world when there were 
yet but two people on earth, He ordained 
that one should govern the other. 

As time passed on the family ex- 
panded into tribes, and tribes into com- 
munities, and communities into nations, 
wherein civil government became an in- 
dispensable necessit}^; and of all such 
governments God Himself was, directly 
or indirectly, the author and founder. 
It was true then even as now, that "the 
powers that be are ordained of God." 

It is a fact well known to the student 
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of history that God in every age or- 
dained such forms of government as 
were best suited to the conditions 
and the capacities of both the ruler 
and the ruled at the time. 

As those governments were adapted 
to different ages and peoples, they 
necessarily varied much in form. 
Thus we find absolute monarchies, 
limited monarchies, aristocracies, king- 
doms and republics, all appearing upon 
the stage, and in turn each giving 
way to its successor. 

Whenever any form of government 

had accomplished its destiny, or the 

work which God had allotted to it. 

He removed it and reared another in 

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its stead; and anon, another, and 
another, each consecutively reaching 
higher civilizations, and thus onward 
until the wheel of Providence turns up 

to-day in all the intelligence, freedom, 
humanity, and civilization of the nine- 
teenth century. 

Going back to some "Pisgah of 
vision," and recounting the decisive 
battles of history, and then watching 
the unfolding panorama of the nations 
as they rise to greatness and in turn 
sink into oblivion, we may trace the 
hand of God in all, shaping, mould- 
ing and preparing the world for higher 
destinies in the reign of liberty, jus- 
tice and righteousness. 
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From the very beginning every shaft 
of Providence converged to this one 
end; some of which have fallen on 
this age and have entailed their 
golden treasures upon the world of to- 
day; while others in our higher heavens 
still dart onward into the indefinite 
future, prophetic of yet higher ac- 
hievements and brighter glories in 
store for unborn nations yet to rise. 

Even now the highest end is not 
yet attained; the great wheel of 
Providence is still turning, the pano- 
rama is still moving, the mutations 
of empire are still active and prog- 
nostic of oncoming changes, while God 
is still utilizing the armies of nations 

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as the mightiest human agency of His 
executive power. 

Then let us consider: 

(2) That God utilizes civil govern- 
ments for the promotion of good order, 
aggressive civilization and righteous- 
ness; and for the "punishment of evil 
doers and the praise of them that do 
well." (I Peter ii. 14; Romans xiii. 
3, 4.) 

Since punishment implies a punisher, 
it follows that all governments must 
have an executive arm — an executive 
power. And as the supreme executive 
power of a nation is vested in her 
armies, it again follows that the sol- 
dier has always been a necessity in 
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this department of the nation; and 
even in the present age the same 
state exists and the soldier is still a 
necessity — "A terror to evil doers, who 
bears not the sword in vain." 

No one will deny that God could 
accomplish all His purposes in this 
world without soldiers, but He never 
has done so, and perhaps never will 
as long as nations, as such, need 
correction and punishment. 

He might have discomfited Amalek 
without war and bloodshed ; he might 
have subdued the "seven nations" of 
Canaan without the armies of Israel, 
but he saw fit to work through human 
agencies, of which the soldiery under 
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Moses and Joshua formed an essential 
factor. 

History has but one voice in con- 
firmation of this fact. Review the battle 
of Marathon, of Arbela, of Chalons, 
of Tours, of Hastings, of Orleans, of 
Waterloo, of Bunker Hill, of Gettys- 
burg, of Manila and of Santiago, and 
blind indeed must be the eyes which 
fail to see the hand of God in every 
conflict, lifting the nations to higher 
destinies in the lines of progressive 
civilization, freedom and independence. 

It is true that wars are universally 

deprecated, and the time will come 

when "men shall beat their swords 

into plowshares and their spears into 

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pruning-hooks, and nations shall learn 
war no more." May Providence speed 
that day; but until it does come the 
soldier will continue to be a necessity 
as much as the policeman and the 
magistrate. 

In all ages God has secured His 
purposes with and in a nation through 
the agency of her soldiers: soldiers 
have been an ever-present factor of 
the world's progress from savage des- 
potism to the humane, life- breathing 
civilization of the present. 

That we are not to-day trampled 

under the iron heels of the world's 

Neros, or crushed under the hoof of 

bloodthirsty tyrants and despots, is 

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due to the fact that heroes have 
broken their imperial power, and the 
blood of soldiers on a thousand fields 
of carnage and death has regenerated 
the ages. 

That Napoleon did not carry his 
destructive sword across the Channel 
and desolate the fair fields of Eng- 
land and drench her gardens and 
palaces with human gore, was due to 
the chivalry of the British army and 
the heroic thousands that kissed the 
dust on the field of Waterloo. 

That the "tree of liberty" was not 

plucked up from Columbia's soil 

almost as soon as it had been planted 

was due to the prowess and sacrifices 

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The Republic of America, 

of our revolutionary forefathers. 
That the boon of freedom and equal 
rights became the heritage of Amer- 
ica's noble sons, was the purchase of 
the blood of heroes who fought and 
bled at Concord, Bunker Hill, Lexing- 
ton, Trenton and Yorktown; to God 
we owe it all, yet to God through 
the agency of that soldiery who offered 
their all upon the altar of freedom 
and American Independence. That a 
number of "stars" were not expunged 
from our national escutcheon, and our 
flag, the ensign of our country's great- 
ness, forever disgraced, is due to the 
"Grand Army of the Republic," whose 
sanguinary exploits have won for them 
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tlio <:r{ititiule of the nation aiul the 
praises of generations yet unborn. 

Throii^'h tlie toils and pciils of tlic 
tented lidd, thioiii;]! starvation, ]trison8, 
iiicrcik'ss Iiospitals and scenes of 
shiughter, our soldiers liore llie Ark 
of the American Covenant 1 lir<.ni;li the 
teuipest and lire of \var, and with 
the a»r<rre<rate ai-nis of one niilli(»n 
warriors })ut down the most gi^jantic 
i-el>ellion i!i the annals of time; a re- 
Ixdiion that iudted the earth from th(> 
(,)hi() to the (iulf with Mu«' hattle 
lines of infantry far more invineihle 
than the legions of Napoleon ()n the 
field of Waterloo, and planted the Stars 
and Stripi'H on every hill to (hcit for- 
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ever **0'er the hind of the free and 
the home of the brave;" and recently, 
with true humanitarian sympathies, 
they have reared it as the "Fhig of 
Freedom" in the Isles of the Sea, bade 
the tyrant and oppressor depart, and 
set the oppressed free. 

And now, since the "North" and 
the "South" have once more merged 
into a common brotherhood and have 
forgotten all sectional strife ; since the 
flag of our country is honored on 
land and sea and commands the re- 
spect and admiration of the world; 
since the American citizen is a hero 
at home and a king abroad; since 
the Temple of our Republic, instinct 
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with freedom's glory, rests securely 
in the hearts of true patriots and 
lifts its resplendent dome and spreads 
its azure canopy, inviting all the 
world to its sacred immunities of 
homes, liberty and equal rights, let 
us remember with gratitude that it 
is due, under God, to the prowess and 
heroism of the soldiery of America. 

Our glorious heritage is their im- 
perishable monument— a monument 
which shall live to their honor when 
marble shafts have crumbled into 
dust. 

Upon a tablet in St. Paul's Cathe- 
ral, in London, you will find the name 
of the architect, "Christopher Wren," 



The Republic of America* 

and beneath it the words: "Do you 
ask for his monument? Look around.'* 
How very true of our soldiery. 
"Look around;" from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific; from the Lakes to the 
Gulf; and the Isles of the Sea. Gaze 
now upon the Temple of Liberty; 
ring its Independence bell, proclaim- 
ing equal rights to all, and every 
chime shall echo the praise of our 
soldiery. 



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CHAPTER II. 

OUR REPUBLIC — THE EMBODIMENT OF CHRIS- 
TIAN PRINCIPLES CONDUCIVE TO NATIONAL 
GREATNESS AND CIVIC SUPERIORITY. 

In our late civil war the final issue 
was infinitely greater than men at first 
imagined; it proved to be one of the 
"hinges" on which turns "the destiny 
of empire." Verily, our armies 
"builded better than they knew." 

No doubt, at the time they simply 
aimed to put down a gigantic rebellion, 
looking no further than the saving of 
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the Union and the restoration of peace 
within our borders. 

Such a purpose was most noble and 
fully justified the chivalry of their 
arms and conquests, and might have 
achieved all the glory which their 
hearts desired. But this conception 
leaves the half untold. In achievinor 
this triumph they have solved the 
problem of the ages. They have vin- 
dicated the life, tenacity and the en- 
during power of a true republic, and 
demonstrated to the world the possi- 
bility and the practicability of self- 
government— "government of the peo- 
ple, for the people, by the people." 

Thus by their triumphs they have 
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established a world-wide and universal 
principle; hero-like, they have clutched 
a monster error by the throat, bore 
the sentiments of the nations to a 
loftier seat, blotted the era of oppres- 
sion out and led a universal freedom 
in; they have solved the doubtful des- 
tiny of dubious years and landed the 
ark of our country's glory safe on the 
peaceful Ararat of "liberty eternal." 

Thus when they fought for their 
country, they fought in the highest 
sense not only for God, but also for 
the ages of humanity to come. 

As Joshua, David, Gideon and the 
armies of Israel fought the enemies 
of righteousness, and gained victories 
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which modified the destinies of suc- 
ceeding nations, so their triumphs and 
achievements affect all nations and 
will give shape and character to 
the human race for ages to come. 
On our side, the **war was of God," 
as in the days of Jeroboam. (See I 
Chron. v. 17-22.) 

We fought to carry out God's plan, 
to complete His programme in the 
order of His Providence. Our Republic 
is not an accidental or fortuitous ag- 
gregation of political elements, but 
rather God's own thought formulated 
and crystallized into a government 
according to His own Divine ideal, 
and in harmony with His own eternal 
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purposes; and therefore, they who 
fought to maintain its integrity and 
uphold its institutions, fought for God 
and His cause; and in this they served 
Him as those "sent by God for the 
punishment of evil doers and for the 
praise of them that do well." Yea! 
they were, as Paul declares, "the 
minister of God, bearing not the sword 
in vain — a revenger to execute wrath 
upon him that doeth evil." (Rom. 
xiii. 1-7.) 

It therefore followed that their de- 
feat was simply impossible, although 
the powers of Europe had combined 
against them. 
For a more definite understanding 
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of the principles under consideration let 
us consider: 

Tliat the internal and external structure 
of our Repuhlic is more fully allied with the 
principles of Christianity, and is better 
adapted to their true and progressive de- 
velopment in the huilding-up of the truest 
citizenship, the noblest manhood and the 
highest civilizatioji than any other form of 
government in the world. 

Dr. Schaff, the great historian, says: 
"The history of the Church is the 
summation of all Providences;" and we 
doubt not but that in this line of prog- 
ress or chain of sequence every nation 
forms a link, and that among these 
our own republic is the most import- 
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ant one, because it is more fully allied 
with her expanding growth and out- 
come. 

That Christianity is adapted to all 
peoples and tribes and destined to fill 
the world with the triumph of its prin- 
ciples, I need not pause to prove. Of 
its aggressive power the Prophet sings: 
"No weapon formed against thee shall 
prosper;" and concerning its ultimate 
triumphs he says: "That nation which 
will not serve thee shall be utterly de- 
stroyed." (See Isaiah Ix. 12; Dan. ii. 
44.) 

Thus St. John, in Apocalyptic vision 
on the Isle of Patmos, seeing things 
to come, behold the time when "the 
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kingdoms of this world had become the 
kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, 
who was to reign forever." (Kev. xii. 15.) 

Ever toward this happy goal "the 
star of empire onward takes its way.'" 
This is the key which unlocks many 
of the strange enigmas of history. In 
the removal of dynasties, in the con- 
cussion of empires, in the overthrow 
of old and the rise of new kingdoms 
— in short, in every revolution of the 
past we may trace with marvelous 
clearness the footprints of Providence 
in His triumphant march toward this 
foreseen consummation. 

As in the past, even so in the 
present, God utilizes governmental 
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powers to work out the heaven or- 
dained mission of His truth and His 
plans. Not by miracle, not by arbi- 
trary measures, but through the agency 
of the nation itself would He regene- 
rate the nations of the earth. 

His principles must strike out and dif- 
fuse themselves through the structure of 
national institutions and permeate the 
polity of their civil powers in order 
to attain their true destiny. 

I would not be understood as advo- 
cating the un-American doctrine of 
the "union of Church and State," but 
I do hold that in the hands of God 
the two are twin sisters — two separate 
and distinct yet co-ordinate factors of 
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Divine Providence in the accomplish- 
ment of His mighty purposes concern- 
ing the nations of the earth. 

It must be evident, therefore, that 
a government wherein the channels 
for the flow of the true principles of 
freedom and righteousness are closed, 
and wherein their true expansion is 
impossible, can never become Chris- 
tianized, and therefore, as the Prophet 
declares, "it shall be utterly wasted." 
No doubt such is the doom overhang- 
ing the Ottoman empire to-day, trem- 
bling in its arrogance and nodding 
toward its fall. 

Moreover, it must also be evident 
that that government which affords 
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the greatest facilities and scope for 
such expansion and development, and 
bears the greatest affinities for and 
political adaptations to these principles, 
would be the most favored as the 
best agency for the achievement of 
God's purposes. 

Speaking with all due regard for 
other nations, we cannot but believe 
that our own glorious Republic, for 
this very reason, is thus favored and 
elected. It bears superior affinities 
for the development of true manhood 
among all ranks and classes; and 
also a civil polity most favorable to 
the steady advancement of civilization 
and national righteousness. 
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The Republic of America. 

The piinciples embraced in the purest 
aiul highest civilization are strangely 
set forth in the symbolic vision of 
the prophets. This vision was first 
beheld by Isaiah (vi. 2), and after 
him by Ezekiel (i. 10-12) and last of 
all by St. John on the Isle of Patmos 
(Rev. iv. 6-8). 

In this metaphoric scene we have 
"four living creatures," "the lion," 
"the ox," "the man," "the eagle," 
each representing a race and each 
one swaying principality over the race 
he represents— the lion, king of beasts 
—the ox, monarch among cattle— man, 
the lord of the manor— and the eagle, 
queen of the air. 

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They are four kingly emblems 
blended together in one sublime sym- 
bol, and mysteriously connected with 
the "wheel" — the wheel of Providence 
— thus portraying and emphasizing the 
essential principles of the highest 
Christian civilization; I say ''Christian 
civilization," because any civilization 
devoid of Christianity carries within 
itself the elements of its own disso- 
lution, and is doomed, sooner or later, 
to perish; of this fact history is re- 
plete with illustrations. 

That these principles are more fully 

embodied in our Republic than in any 

other political system in the world, 

is evident from their import. Con- 

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sidering these creatures in their order 
— we have: 

First "the Lion;" this "living crea- 
ture" emblemizes power, self-reliance, 
heroism, majesty, prowess, etc. 

How these elements of national great- 
ness have permeated the very tissue 
and structure of our Republic and ex- 
panded amid our free institutions, must 
be apparent to every intelligent citi- 
zen. Pulsating in the American heart, 
and quietly nestling in the intermin- 
gling sympathies of public sentiment, 
there lurks a majesty and a prowess 
which other nations are bound to 
respect. 

Twice already, in our very infancy, 

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the proudest empire on earth has had 
to pay involuntary obeisance to the 
chivalry of our armies; and since the 
young lion has fully matured it might 
be indiscreet to provoke the glance 
of his eye or arouse the thunder of 
his roar — an experiment recently ven- 
tured by Spain to the defeat of her 
army, the loss of her navy, and the 
humiliation of her national pride. 

Is it not true that our self-reliance 
has become the foundation of our in- 
dependence as a nation, and our in- 
dependence the progenitor of our 
national freedom? 

The growing majesty and greatness 
of our institutions hold the world in 
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reverence; our ensign armorial — "the 
Stars and Stripes" — sanctified by the 
atmosphere of freedom and equal rights 
and wedded in immortal memories 
with glorious names, glorious deeds and 
glorious victories, waves o'er land and 
sea the pride and admiration of the 
world, as the emblem of principles 
dearest to the heart of humanity. 

The second figure in this symbol is 
—"the Ox." This "living creature" 
emblemizes patience, perseverance, en- 
durance, etc. 

Our Republic is, in a marvelous 

sense, the very embodiment of these 

principles; their wonderful expansion 

amid our free institutions has covered 

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our domain with beauty and wealth, 
and happy homes of domestic peace 
and prosperity. 

A little over one hundred years old, 
our history is a strange record of 
patiLUce, perseverance, toil and indus- 
try. Forests have retired as if by 
magic, and cities and smiling villages 
cheer the land. Instead of the oak 
and lofty pine, church spires point to 
the clouds; instead of the wigwam of 
the savage, colleges and academies dot 
our plains; the hissing of the serpent, 
the growl of the bear and the scream 
of the panther have all been exchanged 
for the hum of machinery, the strains 
of the piano, the songs of Zion and 
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the shouts of civilization and 
peace. 

By the universal inspiration of these 
principles our star of empire has moved 
onward in every true line of national 
greatness and honor, causing the 
"valleys to break forth into singing and 
the wilderness to blossom as the rose." 

Again: The third figure in this sym- 
bol is— 'The face of a man." This 
"living creature" emblemizes knowl- 
edge, faith, ingenuity, wisdom, reason, 
invention, intelligence, etc., etc. 

These elements of Christian civili- 
zation find scope for true development 
in our Republic as in no other politi- 
cal system in the world. 
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The Republic of America. 

Here royalty runs not in blood; 
here no despot reigns to set bounds 
to our aspirations and achievements; 
no hierarchy lords it over the con- 
sciences of men; no guillotine is here 
held up dripping with the blood of 
martyrs; no rack, no faggot here to 
awe the timorous into submission; 
here a man is born the peer of his 
neighbor, with the same inalienable 
rights as a citizen in the "land of 
the free and the home of the brave." 

"Our system of education, pre-emi- 
nently the best in the world, affords 
facilities for moral, literary and civil 
attainments to every class, irrespective 
of blood or treasure." 
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Under the reign of these principles 
thus expanding in our midst, our Re- 
public has become "the palladium 
of equal rights and the polar 
star to rational liberty for all the 
world." 

It is veritably the land of free 
pulpits, free press, free schools, free 
speech, and of universal emulation and 
enterprise; the land of genius, of inven- 
tion, of discovery and of steady prog- 
ress; a land where heroism is indige- 
nous to the soil and patriotism the 
hereditary heirloom of the family. 
Here the humblest may rise to great- 
ness; the "tow boy" may become 
President, the "rail-splitter" a nation's 
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Benefactor, and the "tanner" an im- 
mortal Hero. Such states and condi- 
tions obtain in no other country— in 
no other nation. 

The fourth and last figure in the 
royal symbol is "the Eagle." This 
"living creature" emblemizes liberty, 
freedom, independence, eminence, etc. 

How native to our Kepublic these 
elements of national supremacy are 
is known to all who have studied our 
history and understand our constitution 
and civil polity. 

Oppressed and sighing for liberty in 

other lands, the lovers of freedom fled 

to this, and here there soon developed 

among them an independence in man- 

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hood, a self-reliance in energy, and a 
freedom in worship which was impos- 
sible in the lands frc-m which they had 
come. 

Under the reign of our emblematic 
"eagle" they learned to recognize in 
one another the equal and inalienable 
rights of "life, liberty and the pur- 
suit of happiness," and laid the founda- 
tions of their State upon the principles 
of civil equality, political independ- 
ence, and liberty of conscience in 
the worship of Deity. 

Early animated ,with the elements 

emblemized by the lion, the ox, and 

the man, they dared to renounce their 

allegiance to foreign powers and to 

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set up a government "of the people, 
for the people, by the people." 

All subsequent efforts to overthrow 
this government and force submission 
were defe: ed, and the Republic lived. 
"In the memorable days of the Revo- 
lution this emblematic eagle, like Jor- 
dan's dove, descended and pronounced 
a benediction on the conquering heroes, 
snatched the laurels from Britam's 
brow and placed them triumphantly 
upon the champions of American In- 
dependence." 

This emblematic eagle, as our 

national ^gis, carries the torch of 

liberty in her talons as she cleaves our 

political heavens, and with her pinions 

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stretched from shore to shore she in- 
vites all the world to repose beneath 
her wings of protecting power. 

As a messenger of mercy our Re- 
public is the embodiment of Christian 
principles. When the cry of starvation 
is heard from a foreign shore American 
transports are freighted with the muni- 
ficent offerings of a generous people; 
and moved with a magnanimity that 
knows no parallel, our swift ships are 
dispatched to carry their treasures to 
the homes of destitution, hanger and 
death. Are the Armenians crushed 
under the treachery and tyranny of 
Turkish assassins? The halls of our 
senate are eloquent with a sympathy 
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which responds in the bosom of a 
whole people. Are the West Indies 
and the Philippine Islands writhing 
and dying under the merciless hoof of 
despotism? The great heart of our 
Kepublic is there not onl}" to "weep 
with those that weep and mourn with 
those that mourn," but it is there 
also to draw the sword in the name of 
humanity, to break the tyrant's rod, 
disarm him of his power, banish him 
from the domain, and set his suffering 
victims free. 

The elements of Christian civilization 

emblemized by the royal symbolism of 

the man, the ox, the lion and the 

eagle, have so permeated our civil 

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polity and constitution as to place our 
Kepublic upon the highest pedestal of 
national greatness, at once securing to 
the humblest and the lowliest citizen 
the possibilities of rising to the high- 
est seats of honor; and to all, their in- 
alienable rights of life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness. 

Thus without the least consciousness 
of presumption or extravagance, we 
recognize our Republic as the politico- 
religious handmaid of Providence in 
the aggressive civilization of the world. 
Dull indeed must be the mind that 
cannot see the hand of God in our 
achievements in the past. 

Our brave soldiers who offer their 
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lives on liberty's holy altar to-day 
caught their inspiration from the men 
who fought for their convictions in our 
Civil War; and those men of the Civil 
War had heard of the Revolutionary 
heroes and were proud to emulate their 
deeds of patriotic valor; but the men of 
the Revolution had inherited the spirit 
of the Pilgrim fathers and were moved 
to prove themselves worthy of those 
noble sires; and the Pilgrims had 
the mantles of the reformers resting 
upon their shoulders, and the re- 
formers were moved by the memories 
of the martyrs, and the martyrs had 
seen the Apostles, and the Apostles 
had touched the Christ. Thus the 
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Christ of the ages inspires the chiv- 
airy and crowns the glory of our 
Republic. 

How very significant are the words 
of Wendell Phillips: "The answer to 
Confucianism is China, the answer 
to Buddhism is India, the answer to 
the Koran is Turkey, the answer to 
the Bible is the Christian civilization 
of Europe and America." And may 
we not add— the answer to the royal 
symbolism of the Prophets is the 
Republic of America, with its Anglo- 
Saxon institutions, its affinities for 
religious principles, its Christian Sab- 
bath, and its ever-expanding influence? 



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CHAPTER III. 

OUR REPUBLIC AS OUTLINED BY THE 
PROPHETS. 

In the preceding chapter we have 
noted that the principles on which 
our Republic is founded are Christian 
principles, and have been portrayed 
and enforced by sacred symbols of 
Holy Writ. 

Let us now advance a step further 
and consider another fact • equally im- 
portant and significant, viz.: 

That the polity, no less than the 
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PRINCIPLES, OF OUR REPUBLIC, IS SKETCHED 
BY PROPHETIC PENS AND CLEARLY OUTLINED 
BY THE HIEROGLYPHICS AND SYMBOLISMS OF 

THE Bible. 

It is the theory of some that our 
Republic is simply the fortuitous ag- 
gregation of circumstances, or the 
natural outgrowth of previously exist- 
ing conditions, thus ignoring the con- 
trolling hand of God in our history. 
They are amazed at the "presump- 
tion" of tracing it in the field of 
Divine prophecy. 

But, after all, is it presumption? 

Can we suppose that old Edom, 
Moab, Egypt, Syria, and even seaport 
towns of less importance, should all 
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be programmed upon the inspired page, 
and yet no place be found there for 
our great Republic, teeming as it does 
with unsurpassed promises and possi- 
bilities, and telling more upon the 
weal and civil destiny of the human 
race than any other nationality under 
heaven, as the "queen of nations" 
and the "young athlete of the world?" 
Alas, is not this a presumption even 
more extravagant than the former? 
Yea, is it not absurd? 

Then, stepping lightly, let us enter 
the sacred portals of Prophecy and 
look for the map of our Republic. 

"The prophets speak of a great 
nationality which should rise in the 
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future, and which many theologians 
style 'Israel restored;' that is, 'the 
Jews' they say, 'are to return to Pales- 
tine, rebuild Jerusalem and resume a 
constitutional State.' " This has long 
been the prevailing exegesis of those 
mysterious prophecies. 

But it will no doubt be admitted 
that divine Providence itself, is the 
best interpreter of prophecy; and as it 
lifts the veil, prophetic mysteries and 
human misconceptions and errors van- 
ish, and new fields and theories dawn 
upon us. 

"The Jews themselves at their great 
Rabbinical Council in the city of Phila- 
delphia, in 1868, abandoned this notion." 
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Query: Does not the Republic of 
America answer to the prophetic portrait 
of the nationality which was to rise? 

Let us lay our prejudices aside and 
calmly consider a few reasons for such 
an hypothesis. 

(1) The promised nationality was to 
consist of thirteen distinct States. 

So late a prophet as Ezekiel says: 
"Ye shall inherit the land according to 
the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph 
shall have two portions." (Ezek. xlvii. 
13.) 

Here we have twelve tribes. Joseph 

being dead, his two sons, Ephraim and 

Manasseh, each receive a portion, thus 

making a confederacy of thirteen Staves. 

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Precisely this is true of our history. 
At first we had twelve States. "Wil- 
liam Peiin held the charter of Pennsyl- 
vania for twenty years before he ob- 
tained that of Delaware," and then 
we had thirteen States, as the prophet 
had foretold. The marvelous exact- 
ness with which our Republic har- 
monizes with this prophecy leaves no 
room for doubt as to its application. 

But another reason is: 

(2) That the land was to be in- 
habited by a people gathered out of 
all nations. (Ezek. xxxviii. 8, 12.) 

This prophecy applies to our country 
so clearly that "he who runs may 
read." 

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*' Every nation is here represented; 
and still they come; like 'doves to 
their windows' they swarm by thou- 
sands and thousands to our hospitable 
shores." 

"The sons of them also that afflicted 

thee shall come bending unto thee, 

and all that despised thee shall bow 

at the soles of thy feet." (Isaiah Ix. 

10.) 

"How literally true of our Republic! 
The sons of the very soldiery that 
invaded our coasts and afflicted us in 
our national infancy, have sought and 
found homes in our domain. On sev- 
eral occasions also they have been 
compelled to do us reverence, and 
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bow at the very feet of our Repub- 
lic." 

"Here, too, foreigners are to have 
equal rights and homes with the native- 
born citizen." 

"And the stranger that sojourns 
among you shall be unto you as born 
in the country; they shall have inheri- 
tance among you, saith the Lord." 
(Ezek. xlvii. 22.) 

The accuracy with which this de- 
scribes the spirit and genius of our 
Republic must be evident to all. We 
grasp with the hand of welcome the 
rich and the poor of all nations, and 
proudly "tip our national white hat" 
across the waters and bid the world 
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come in and share with us the rights 
of man, the boon of liberty and inde- 
pendence. 

Does any other nationality in the 
world so beautifully fill the prophet's 
portraiture as our own free Republic? 
In the eternal fitness of things can we 
doubt the application? 

Another reason for the hypothesis is : 

(3) "That our Republic is the only 
nationality that synchronizes with the 
prophetic time of its rise." 

The prophet declares it was to rise 
"At the time of the end." Daniel — 
(see chap, xii) — speaks of "seventy 
weeks;" also of "time, time and half 
a time"— or 1260 prophetic days. 
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"The seventy weeks, as conceded by 
all, were to begin at the decree of 
Cyrus to rebuild Jerusalem, and were 
to end at the destruction of Jerusalem— 
and the 1260 prophetic days were to 
begin at the destruction of Jerusalem 
'at the time of the end'— and were to 
close with the rise of this new nation- 
ality. Here we have seventy weeks, 
or 490 prophetic days, in one inter- 
val and 1260 prophetic days in the 
other. By making due allowance for 
•Sabbathic years' and 'jubilee years,' 
we find that one rule computes them 
both. History informs us that from 
the decree of Cyrus to the destruc- 
tion of the Temple was 564 solar 
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years; hence, if 70 weeks, or 490 
prophetic days, equal 564 solar years, 
then 1260 prophetic days must equal 
1708 solar years, according to Hebrew 
reckoning and allowing for Sabbathic 
years. 

"Now it is a well-known fact that 
Jerusalem was destroyed on the 189th 
day of A.D. 68. This was the 'time 
of the end,' at which the 1260 pro- 
phetic days, or 1708 solar years, were 
to begin, and which were to end with 
the rise of the new nationality. Thus 
by adding —1708 plus 68 years, plus 
189 days— and taking the hour of the 
evening sacrifice, and makiv^ due 
allowance for the difference oi longi- 
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tude— we have the new nationality to 
rise at the meridian of Philadelphia at 
about one-quarter of 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon of July 4, 1776! As this was 
the very hour in which the 'Declara- 
tion of American Independence' was 
declared, lo! 'a nation was born in a 
day,' and by its birth a strange and 
mysterious prophecy was fulfilled." 

And the bells in the steeple 
Sang out to the people — 

'*Esto Perpetua — Ever enduring, 

Still may the national glory increase; 

Union and harmony ever securing 

Prosperity, Freedom, Religion and Peace." 

But another reason for the hypothe- 
sis is: 

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(4) That the promised nationality- 
was to be a EepuMic, and not a mon- 
archy. 

If the prophets were exact as to the 
time of its rise, they are equally clear 
as to its polity. 

Jeremiah says (xxx. 21): "Their 
nobles shall be of themselves, and their 
Governor shall proceed from the midst 
of them." 

Hosea says (ii. 11): "The people shall 
be gathered together and appoint unto 
themselves one head." 

Isaiah says (i. 26): "I will restore 
thy Judges, and thy Counsellors as at 
the beginning." 

Note here: The government was to 
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have "One head" — a chief magistrate 
appointed by all the people; and also 
"Governors," "Judges" and "Counsel- 
lors," taken from the masses or com- 
mon ranks of the citizens, thus con- 
stituting a government with a free 
elective franchise, whose people have 
the sovereign right of choosing their 
own rulers and judges and lawmakers. 

"Nothing could be more clearly pho- 
tographed by the prophetic portraiture 
here than the principle of 'popular 
sovereignty,' and the Legislative, Judi- 
cial and Executive departments of our 
own glorious Republic." 

Thus the principle of popular free- 
dom, latent in every breast, lying at 
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the very base of true manhood and 
good citizenship, and forming the very 
texture of free government, kindled 
the prophet's eye and pointed him to 
a country devoted forever to its sacred 
immunities and living, operative in- 
stitutions. 

Truly, "we have a goodly heritage" 
— a Kepublio whose Architect is God 
Himself, who moulded it according 
to His own archet3^pal ideas, plans 
and far-reaching purposes. 

That God should have a hand in 
preserving this Republic in the days 
of its peril should not surprise us. 
That He should purify its atmosphere 
by the tempests of war — emancipate 
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four million slaves and enthrone a uni- 
versal freedom upon a higher seat, 
is just what we might expect of Him 
who always takes care of His own— 
His own Republic— the child of His 
own ideal foretold by prophets old. 

And history demonstrates the fact 
that until our Republic shall have 
fulfilled its mission and accomplished 
the work to which Heaven has ordained 
it, no civil power on earth can pre- 
vail against it. It must run its race- 
it must do its work. 

Although it is possible for it to 

fall as other nations have perished 

before it, by internal corruption or 

foreign aggression, yet as the child 

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of Heaven, ordained for a specific work, 
we need have no fear that it ever 
will fall, or can fall before its divine 
mission is accomplished; for the God 
of nations, whose purposes can never 
fail, will preserve it despite of all its 
foes. Once the proudest exclamation 
of man was "I am a Roman," but 
as the result of our great achieve- 
ments, the proudest exclamation of 
man to-day is "I am an American." 
There are those who boast of ''Anglo- 
Saxon blood," and are proud to be- 
lieve they belong to the Anglo-Saxon 
race; but to my mind it essentially 
minimizes an American to call him an 
"Anglo-Saxon." 



The Republic of America. 

In heroism, chivalry, courage, ge- 
nius, enterprise, invention, intelligence, 
humanity — in short, in all the elements 
essential to the highest manhood, citi- 
zenship and civilization, no Anglo- 
Saxon was ever equal to our truly 
American man. 

The American is all that the Anglo- 
Saxon ever was, and in valor, genius 
and civilization he is vastly more. 
And I humbly repeat what no true 
American will deny, that, as to civil 
pedigree and immunities, the proudest 
exclamation of man to-day is — I am 
an American and stand for American 
institutions. 

Plato, looking through the spectacle 
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of nature, thanked God for two things, 
viz.: "That he was born a philosopher 
and not a beast; and second, that he 
was born a Grecian and not a barba- 
rian." 

But here on Columbia's soil we en- 
joy even a richer heritage ; not simply 
born a philosopher, here man is born 
a MAN, with all the glorious endow- 
ments of "life," "liberty," and "in- 
dependence." 

It is for these principles — for this 
richer heritage, this paradise of free- 
dom, this heirloom of American man- 
hood, this child of Heaven, this Re- 
public of prophetic vision, and this 
asylum for all who would flee from 
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the despots of other lands— that the 
American soldier bears arms, and for 
which the name of the American Re- 
public stands. 



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CHAPTER TV. 

OUK REPUBLIC — THE HARBINGER OF THE 
HIGHEST CIVILIZATION, AND OUR INSTI- 
TUTIONS THE POLITICIAL EVANGEL OF 
THE WORLD. 

We are now prepared to advance a 
step further and consider our Republic 
in its heaven-ordained mission among 
the nations. 

Our Republic is to all the world 
the "Polar Star" to popular freedom, 
self-government, equal rights and 
liberty of conscience; and as such is 
tlie conservator and evangel of the 
"inalienable rights of man," commis- 
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sioned of Heaven to inspire and lead 
the nations in progressive, humane, 
philanthropic. Christian civilization. 

That such is the politico-religious 
mission of our Republic has also been 
outlined in prophecy. 

"I saw in my dream and behold 
there came up out of the sea an 
Eagle which had three heads; and 
she spread her wings over all the 
earth. And I saw, and all nations 
were subject unto her; and no one 
spoke against her. And I beheld and 
lo, when she spoke the voice came 
not from either of her heads, but 
from the midst of her body." (II 
Esdras xi. 1-10.) 

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Also— (II Esdrasxii. 10-13): 
"And lie said unto me, this is the 
interpretation of the vision. The Eagle 
whom thou sawest come up from the 
sea is the kingdom which was seen in 
the vision of thy brother Daniel. But 
it was not expounded unto him, there- 
fore now I declare it unto thee. Be- 
hold the days will come that there 
shall rise up a kingdom — (a government 
— reign of principles or sovereignty of 
righteousness) — a kingdom upon the 
earth, and it shall be feared above all 
the kingdoms which were before it." 

This singular vision so accurately 
and minutely describes the genius of 
our Republic as to leave no doubt 
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concerning its true application. It 
corresponds more exactly and strik- 
ingly with the polity of our Republic 
than with any other political system 
under the sun. 

Note here the "Three Heads," em- 
blemizing the three heads of our 
government— the Executive, the Judic- 
ial and the Legislative. 

And, moreover, when this Eagle 
spoke: "The voice came not from either 
head, but from the midst of her body." 

Thus when our Republic speaks as a 
nation, her voice proceeds not from 
either one of her "heads," but virtu- 
ally from the masses of the people— 
from the great "body politic"— the 
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voice of the Republic. As we cannot 
mistake the correspondence we may 
not hesitate to accept the application. 

Again, we are told that this Eagle: 
"Spread her wings over all the earth, 
and all nations were subject unto her 
and no one spoke against her." 

This language very forcibly sets forth 
the grand mission of our Republic 
among the nations; that is, as the em- 
bodiment of principles heretofore out- 
lined, she is to teach them Anglo- 
Saxon institutions, the glory of self- 
government, popular freedom, civil 
liberty and national independence, and 
thus lead them into higher states of 
Christian civilization. 
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The genius of our Republic, as the 
embodiment of principles latent in the 
heart of humanity, like this emblem- 
atic Eagle, shall spread her wmgs over 
"all the earth," and thus prepare the 
way for free speech, free press, free 
schools, free pulpits, free Gospel, free 
church and the Christian Sabbath, fill- 
ing all the world in the full fruition of 
its highest and purest civilization. 

This, under God, is the glorious mis- 
sion of our Republic as the politico-re- 
ligious coefficient of the Christian prin- 
ciple of progressive civilization. The 
American Eagle of this emblematic 
vision, plumed with the glory of our 
institutions in her lofty aerie has 
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already "spread her wings," and as 
she sweeps the breath of heaven she 
preaches the gospel of our Republic 
to the nations and tribes on earth. 
And as her silvery pinions of light 
shall shave the horizon of the future 
everj^ land shall bow obsequious to 
her message; the tyrant's chains shall 
fall from his victims, and the millions 
lay hold on freedom and manhood. 

We are told that ''no one spoke 
against her/' This prophecy is already 
so far accomplishd that in this age 
none "speak against her" but tyrants 
who hold that "might makes right," 
and monarchs who believe in "the 
divine right of kings," while they 
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proudly ignore the God-gi^^en and in- 
alienable rights of their down-trodden 
subjects ; none but such speak against 
the principles embodied in our em- 
blematic Eagle. Nor will they long 
speak thus. Their doom is certain, 
nor is it far distant. Already thrones 
are trembling, dynasties are declining, 
crowns are falling, and the nations 
are inhaling the fresh breezes of liberty 
surging up from the "land of the 
free"; peoples whose aspirations have 
been kindled by the gospel of the 
Republic are moving, and the thou- 
sands who have long been crushed 
under the hoof of despotism and super- 
stition are aspiring after the inalien- 
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able rights of manhood. Old Mexico 
and the struggling republics of South 
America are forceful illustrations of 
the ever rising urgency of this truth ; 
and the closing decade of the century 
is replete with striking exhibitions of 
its wonder-working power. 

The reforms of Japan, the restless- 
ness of China, India, and Turkey, and 
the general turbulence of the Orient, 
as also the internal agitations of Ital5% 
Austria and France, and the insurrec- 
tions in tlie West Indies in the Atlantic, 
and of the Philippines in the Pacific, 
abundantly demonstrate the fact that 
freedom is the all-inspiring divinity of 

man, the beating pulse of his hopes 

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and his aspirations reaching out after 
his God-given rights of "life, liberty, 
and the pursuit of happiness"; and 
the American victories at Manila and 
at Santiago are but the civic proph- 
ecies of that long-looked-for, and 
ever on-coming age of emancipation 
and freedom of which and to which 
our Republic is the guiding Polar star. 
In the grand mission work of our 
Republic and in its past achievements 
to this end we would not and we 
must not forget to recognize the hand 
of Providence. Verily God has as 
much to do with this age as He had 
with the age of Moses; His hand is 
as clearly seen in our electric lights 
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as it was in the "pillar of fire." 
Has He less to do with the great crops 
of our fields than He had with the 
manna in the wilderness and the grapes 
of Eschol? 

Was the discovery of America less 
providential than the finding of Canaan? 
Was the Declaration of Independence 
further removed from His purposes 
than the Decalogue? Were the guns of 
Dewey and Schley less in His divine 
plans than the ram's horns of Joshua, 
the lamps of Gideon, or the rod of 
Moses? 

Do Manila and Santiago show less of 
God in the advance of human freedom 
than the fall of old Jericho? Has God 
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less to do with our Republic than with 
the nations of bygone centuries? 

Truly the genius and prowess with 
which our Republic utilizes human 
energy and wisdom in the advance of 
its divine mission work in the over- 
throw of tyranny and oppression and 
in the emancipation of our race from 
the slavery of superstition and cruelty, 
is in this age the equivalent of the 
miracle-working power of God's peo- 
ple of old. 

When once we can recognize a 
Providence in the advance of freedom, 
a Providence of science, of law, a 
Providence of heroism and patriotism, 
a Providence of the schoolhouse and 
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the church, and a Providence of Anglo- 
Saxon civilization, then also can we see 
a Providence of the gospel of our Republic 
proclaiming liberty to the bound, deliver- 
ance to the captives and equal rights to 
all. 

Again, in this emblematic Eagle we 
must also recognize the doctrine of ter- 
ritorial expansion. "She spread her 
wings over all the earth." 

The genius for expansion and coloni- 
zation has marked the historj^ of our 
Republic from its very incipiency; it 
has converted a vast continent into a 
Republic of free commonwealths. To 
the thirteen original States it has 
added the "Northwest Territory," 
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reaching to the Mississippi Kiver; by 
the Louisiana purchase it extended 
our borders to the Rocky Mountains; 
by the acquisition of Texas and of 
tejritory from Mexico it shoved our 
borders to the Pacific shore; and by 
the purchase of Alaska, the annexa- 
tion of Hawaii, and the control of 
the West Indies and the Philippines, 
it has expanded until the sun has 
ceased to set on our shores. 

Thus has this emblematic Eagle 
spread her wings. In the advance of 
our Republic in its lofty mission the 
doctrine of political isolation has been 
sadly shaken by the victories of 
Dewey and Schley. The echoes of the 
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guns at Manila and Santiago have 
preached a gospel new to many of 
our statesmen, and we find ourselves 
face to face with problems of which 
Washington and Monroe never dreamed. 
We have awakened to the fact that 
our Republic owes a political debt to 
other peoples; just as Paul felt him- 
self a "debtor to all men" because he 
had the gospel of Christianity, so are 
we debtors to all peoples because we 
have the gospel of this prophetic Re- 
public — the gospel of American insti- 
tutions. 

God never formed our Republic for 
isolation, nor intended that it should 
live to itself alone. 
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It has a mission to fulfill, for which 
it was created — a work to do in the 
line of His purposes and plans as a 
regenerative factor in the world's 
emancipation and civilization. Truly, 
our Republic to-day confronts a new 
duty under a responsibility from 
which there is no escape, a duty 
heaven-ordained and imperative,' which 
must be discharged even at the cost 
of treasure and blood if necessary. 

The question raised by some — 
"Will it pay financially?"— "What 
secular advantage or profit will it se- 
cure?" — to say the least, is extrava- 
gant and profane, betraying the es- 
sence of a selfishness which measures 
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duty by gain and right by policy — a 
selfishness which is the inevitable 
prelude of national decay and ruin. 

The hypothesis that our Republic 
was created without a purpose or a 
mission is atheistic. To say that it 
was formed simply to live for itself 
alone is to declare it a monstrosity, 
since nothing else in the universe was 
ever created for such an end. All 
things were made to serve and to sub- 
serve the fiat of the Almighty. 

Again — to say that obligation ceases 
the moment duty calls for sacrifices 
or necessitates financial loss, or proves 
no longer of secular advantage, is to 
immolate on the altar of mammon 
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the highest principles of purity and 
morality. 

Our Republic is divinely prescribed, 
as has been set forth in the preced- 
ing pages of this treatise. She has 
been created and ordained to do a 
specific work, to serve the cause of 
freedom, humanity and civilization, 
even in fields unsought which have 
been thrust upon her; and although 
her mission may involve the sacrifice 
of treasure and even life itself, yet 
the God of nations will hold her re- 
sponsible for the discharge of her 
divinely appointed duty — a duty whose 
voice shall not be silenced until Anglo- 
Saxon institutions shall prevail in all 
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lands and become the civil heritage 
of all nations and tribes and peoples. 
And thus shall "She spread her wings 
over all the earth." 

That such is the ordained mission 
of our Republic is clearly seen in the 
Providence of public affairs, in public 
opinion and tendencies. God is lead- 
ing us so evidently that none can 
mistake His guiding hand. 

On no other ground can we intelli- 
gently account for the almost univers- 
ally prevailing sentiments of our peo- 
ple, and the deep feeling which animates 
the hearts and consciences of our states- 
men in this direction. Who cannot real- 
ize the tendency, knowing that these 
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very sentiments so universal, for which 
there is no other accounting, inspired 
President McKinley in his late ad- 
dress before the "Home Market Club," 
of Boston, to say: 

"Our priceless principles undergo no 
change under a tropical sun. They 
go with the fiat: 

" * Why read ye not the changeless truth, 
The free can conquer but to save?' 

**I have no light or knowledge not 
common to my countrymen; I do not 
prophesy. The present is all-absorbing 
to me, but I cannot bound my vision 
by the blood-stained trenches around 
Manila, where every red drop, whether 
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from the veins of an American soldier 
or a misguided Filipino, is anguish to 
my heart; but by the broad range of 
future years, when that group of 
islands, under the impulse of the year 
just past, shall have become the gems 
and glories of those tropical seas, a 
land of plenty and of increasing possi- 
bilities, a people redeemed from savage 
indolence and habits, devoted to the 
arts of peace, in touch with the com- 
merce and trade of all nations, enjoy- 
ing the blessings of freedom, of civil 
and religious liberty, of education and 
of homes, and whose children and 
children's children shall for ages hence 
bless the American Republic because 
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it emancipated and redeemed their 
fatherland and set theu in the path- 
way of the world's best civilization." 

Under a lite impulse, David J. Hill. 
LL.D., Assistant Secretary of State at 
Washington, in an article in The 
Forum, on "The War and the Exten- 
sion of Civilization," was moved to 
say: 

"At the present moment this nation 
holds in trust the liberties of nearly 
twelve millions of human beinsrs. 
When at last it renders an account of 
its stewardship, what will its answer 
be? Shall it say to the Lord of 
Nations: 'Here is that which is thine: 
I have hid it in a napkin, and buried it 



The Republic of Amenca. 

in the earth. Behold thy treasure un- 
diminished?' Or shall it say: 'With 
thy talent I have gathered increase. 
Behold the wilderness now populous 
with thriving cities; behold the sea 
made the highway of human inter- 
course; behold its islands, no longer 
bleeding under the sword, but blossom- 
ing with plenty and smiling in the se- 
curity of peace'? The true glory of a 
nation is not in the spoils of conquest, 
but in the fruits of the faithful hus- 
bandman; and what a glorious harvest 
is the ripening of a civic consciousness 
matured under liberty secured by 
law!'* 



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CHAPTER V. 

TRUE PAIRIOTISM— THE CONSERVATOR OF OUR 
NATIONAL INTEGRITY AND GLORY. 

In a Republic like ours, which em- 
bodies so many cardinal principles of 
humanity and civilization, true patriot- 
ism can stand second only to Chris- 
tianity. Loyalty to God, loyalty to 
country and loyalty to personal man- 
hood, is the basic rock of American 
citizenship; and patriotism is the beat- 
ing heart of the Republic. 

There are times of war and times 
of peace; but patriotism, like godliness, 

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claims all times, and should be en- 
couraged in all seasons as the sacred 
heirloom of every American heart. 

The great mass of our people need 
no homily on statesmanship to awaken 
their patriotism. 

The heroism of our soldiery in our 
late conflicts, taken from all ranks 
and classes, is still fresh to our memories. 

But alas! there are those in our 
midst who do need it, nor can the 
lesson be too assiduously taught and 
encouraged by the constant addition 
of fuel, lest its fires expire upon the 
altar of the very freedom of which 
we boast. 

Alas, for the nation that forgets her 
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departed heroes. The oblivion which 
hides the patriot's grave is the in- 
evitable prelude of that nation's ruin. 

The trophied Pyrgus of Miltiades 
on the Plain of Marathon suffered not 
Themistocles to sleep. On the scene 
of battle was erected a spotless shaft 
of marble to the memory of the fallen 
Spartans who, when Xerxes demanded 
their arms, sent back the word: 
"Come and take them." And on that 
monument Simonides wrote the in- 
scription: "0 Stranger, tell it at Lace- 
daemon that we died here in obe- 
dience to her laws." 

Thus, too, like Themistocles, the 
ever-wakeful genius of patriotism keeps 
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eternal vigils o'er the graves of our 
fallen braves, and in silent eloquence 
speaks to the rising millions of our 
land from the mausoleum of a nation's 
heroes, who, like the Spartan chief- 
tains, dared to die for their country's 
glory, and while dying sing: 

"Oh, wrap the flag around me, boys; 
To die will be more sweet, 
With Freedom's starry emblem, boys, 
To be my winding sheet." 

That patriotism has always been a 
vital force in moulding the history 
and shaping the destiny of nations 
no one will deny; that it has ever 
wielded the agencies of power in their 
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demonstrates. Armies have perished, 
but the names and exploits of patriotic 
heroes live on forever. Athens and 
Sparta have passed away, but Solon 
and Lycurgus are still the renowned 
lawgivers of the old world. Greece 
in her glory is no more, but her 
Thermopylae is still there, where the 
immortal three hundred compatriots 
are entombed in the "far famed pass" 
forever. "The Eternal City sleeps 
beneath the debris of centuries, but 
the war-horse of Roman eloquence 
still stands in the Forum, snuffing the 
first breath of treason on the passing 
breeze." The sun of Poland's glory 
has gone down, but who can expunge 
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the name of Kosciusko from the scroll 
of fame? 

No doubt the most potential inspira- 
tion of a nation's patriotism is its his- 
toric consciousness; it is to this that 
the orator appeals when he would 
arouse the patriot's heart. 

What made the Athenians proud of 
their citizenship? Their history. What 
gave the name "Roman citizen" its 
peculiar charm? Roman history. 
What is the pride of England's chiv- 
alry? English history. What gives 
to Germans everywhere their lasting 
love for the fatherland? German his- 
tory. And thus it is with our Re- 
public. Although it cannot boast of 
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an age equal to theirs, yet it has an 
experience and a history in many re- 
spects superior — a history of progress 
and achievement in agriculture, in in- 
vention, in free institutions, in self- 
government, in social prosperity, in 
heroism and victories on land and sea, far 
richer and more glorious. Our history, 
young as it is, endears the American 
flag, American institutions, and the 
American name to every American 
heart. 

This historic consciousness is more 
than simply the memory of past events; 
it is a feeling, a life, the patriotic 
pulse of the nation, and inspires a 
prowess in the citizen and a heroism 
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in the soldier unequaled in the world. 

It ever adds fresh fuel to the flame 
and keeps the fire burning on the altar 
of liberty with a patriotism which never 
knew defeat — a patriotism which rises 
above all political differences, consumes 
all sectional strife, and crystallizes into 
the solid phalanx of fellow -citizenship 
and human brotherhood. 

Tell your sons and daughters of the 
glory of our free institutions; tell 
them of Washington, Lincoln, Grant, 
Dewey, Schley and others; tell them 
of the sanguinary struggles of our 
Revolutionary sires, of the triumphs 
of the "Grand Army of the Republic," 
and of the heroism of our soldiery 
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at Manila and Santiago; tell them the 
story of Gettysburg, of Yorktown, of 
Trenton and Bunker Hill. Yea! in 
sadder tones, tell them of our braves 
who, hero-like, fell for our country's 
glory, and of their patriotic mothers, 
who offered their sons on the altar 
of liberty and the cause of humanity. 
Tell them all, and tell them often, 
and you will need no "standing army," 
nor "floating armada" to protect your 
homes and to preserve the Union. 

Teach them true patriotism, and 
then shall our children to the last 
generation learn to appreciate the 
sacredness of our heaven-ordained 
Republic, and the glory of freedom 
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and self-government. It is true they 
may forget that Caesar crossed the 
Rubicon and wreathed his brow with 
Pharsalian laurels; they may forget 
that the "Iron Duke" plucked the 
scepter of empire from the "Little 
Corporal" at Waterloo; but on "Free- 
dom's Starry Emblem" they will read 
the record of brighter and grander victo- 
ries than ever graced the flag of Old Al- 
bion; they will turn from the champions 
of Marathon to the heroes of Bunker 
Hill, Gettysburg, Manila and Santiago; 
from the empire of the Caesars to the 
Republic of Columbia's freeborn sons, 
founded on the eternal principles of 
liberty, humanity and righteousness; 
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and then, with the sweep of the cen- 
turies, shall our children's children 
hear: 

"The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks, 
Shout to each other, and the mountain tops 
From distant mountains catch the flying joy. 
Till nation after nation taught the sound, 
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CHAPTER VI. 

CONCLUSION. 

Fellow -Citizens: Such is the cause, 
the nationality, the treasures and the 
mission for which our Republic was 
born, and for whose life, institutions 
and growth our soldiery have so nobly 
fought. For this we stand before the 
world to-day. 

It is no flattery to say that no sol- 
diers in all the wars of ages past ever 
fought in a nobler cause. Age on age 
shall roll along, but their sanguinary 
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struggles shall never be forgotten; 
generations yet unborn shall rise and 
in grateful memories strew their graves 
with flowers; and in the far-off future, 
even more than in the present, will 
the world wake up to see and real- 
ize the glory and valor of their cam- 
paigns and the inestimable worth of 
their achievements. They have done 
a work for the human race — a work 
for the universe and for the ages to 
come; a work that shall gather renown 
as the years go by, ever adding laurels 
to their memory and glory to the im- 
mortality of their fame; and when at 
last our Republic shall have run its 
race and accomplished its lofty mission 
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— when it shall roll its final trophies 
into the archives of eternity, may they 
all be there, not only to see, but also 
to share the laurels they have so nobly 
won and so richly deserve. 

It is true that in our Republic there 
are yet many things to deplore — many 
things to be corrected. Our country is 
not Paradise before Satan entered into 
it; the leaves of the printing press are 
sometimes sear and "yellow," and not 
always for "the healing of the 
nations" ; our "municipal rings" and 
our "political rings" are not emblem- 
ized by the ring which our Heavenly 
Father places upon the fingers of His 
returning prodigal sons; nor are our 

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city waters from the "river of life, 
pure as crystal"; nor our city parks 
the land of Beulah where none but 
shining ones are seen; nor our city 
boulevards the "golden street" where 
none but saints promenade. 

Truly there is yet much to be 
achieved, but God in His own good 
time will purge out all iniquity and 
purify the Republic after His own 
ideal; then, when her holy mission is 
accomplished as the politico-religious 
handmaid of Christianity, the Goddess 
of Liberty will stand with one foot 
upon land and the other upon the 
sea, and stretching her arms over all 
the world, hold the Republic of free- 
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dom in one hand and the highest 
Christian civilization in the other, and 
bid the earth hold jubilee. 

Then shall the tree of civil liberty, 
consecrated by the blood of heroes, and 
the tree of soul liberty, consecrated by 
the blood of Calvary, flourish in har- 
monious beauty and mingle their exu- 
berant foliage in an earthly "Paradise 
Regained," and the "nations learn war 
no more." 

And then, when peace shall reign 
from shore to shore, "all nations shall 
bow before Him" upon whose advent 
the angels sang "Peace on earth, good 
will to men," and shall join in triumph 
to "Crown Him Lord of all." 
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"Our country for the world ! we sing, 

But in no worldly way; 
Our country to the Lord we bring, 

And fervent for her pray. 
God make her true, God make her pure, 

God make her wise and good ; 
And through her may the Christ make sure 

Man's world-wide Brotherhood ! 

America! America! 

'Gainst wrong thy might be hurled; 
For thee we lift our loud huzza ! 

Our country for the world ! 

"Oh, broader than her wide domains 

Be her designs divine; 
And richer than her golden veins 

Her charities benign ; 
Firmer than buttressed mountain tower 

Her fixed faith in Thee; 
Her triumphs nobler through thy power 

Than gain on land or sea ! 

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America! America! 

'Gainst wroDg thy might be hurled; 
For thee we lift our loud huzza! 

Our country for the world!" 
— Denis Wortman, D.D. 



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